Dear Iranian American, What do you think of Obama’s speech at Cairo University ? We kindly ask that you call the White House comment line and leave your comments, as well as on our iranican.com blog to let us know what you think. Today, President Obama made another unprecedented move[…]
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Kiosk – Global Zoo Music Video Contest
To Participate: 1- Create a music video for any ofthe tracks from the Global Zoo album 2- Submit your music video between July 15th – July 20th 2009 3- Online voting July 21th – July 30th on the Kiosk website 4- August 1st : Winners and prizes will be announced![…]
Iranian Music: Who Makes it Better?
Who makes Iranian music better? Is it the Iranians living in Iran or is it the Iranians outside of Iran (particularly the LA-based singers)? This question has resulted in a friendly debate among the Iranian community. For those of you avid listeners of Iranian music, you know what your opinion[…]
Roxana Saberi – Calamity or Carelessness?
A lot of you – both Iranicaners and other interested people – have expressed a variety of opinions on the Roxana Saberi case currently gripping headlines around the country. Why not share them with us? Feel free to use an alias, for those of you worried about criticizing the Islamic[…]
Team Melli: Is there Still Hope?
(Updated on May 3, 2009: One of our friends made the video above, a good overview of what happened.) As most of you are well aware, Team Melli, in another utterly lackluster performance, lost to Saudi Arabia 2-1 on Saturday. We showed some promise early on, with aggressive, crisp passing[…]
Ferdowsi
1100 years ago on January 27, a man was born who would preserve the Persian myths, legends, historical data, as well as the Persian language in the masterpiece Shahnameh. The man behind the Shahnameh or “Book of Kings” is the poet Ferdowsi and on this day the Ferdowsi Foundation is[…]
Iranican’s Know-Rooz Gift!
Download the MP3: (High Quality) With the help of Farzad and Hooman, local talent in the Bay Area, Iranican was able to create a Persian version of Jason Mraz’s I’m Yours. The inspiration came from the original song’s music video which has a happy spring-like mood. Iranican reminds you to[…]
Why There’s Still Hope
We’re thankfully more than a week separated from Team Melli’s previous match, a 2010 World Cup qualifier draw against South Korea, which by most measures was a huge disappointment. Instead of going over Iran’s countless faults in the match, be it the lack of effective midfield passing, sloppy defending, or[…]
Are you Iranian?
Hi everyone, Thank you for letting me contribute to the blog. I am very excited about this and I hope I can start good discussions here. I am currently researching on the Iranian diasporic identity. I realize that many of you who grew up in America have appropriated Iranian/American culture[…]
The Ideal Link of Iranians to Americans?
PAAIA- Profiles of Iranian Americans: Maz Jobrani from PAAIA on Vimeo. Is Maz really the guy? Can you think of a place, person, or event who has done or can do more?